ITP: fftw-3.0.1

[Gerrit P. Haase]

Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Aug 11 17:55, James R. Phillips wrote:
> 
>>Although fftw3 can be built with both single and double precision versions,
>>octave only uses double precision, so that is all I propose to build.  Only a
>>shared library (dll) will be built; no static library will be provided.  I have
>>verified that octave can properly detect the presence of fftw during its
>>configuration, and can link with the shared library.
>>
>>Although it would be possible to provide headers and documentation in a
>>separate package from the library, I do not propose to do so, preferring to
>>stay with the simplicity of a single binary package built from a single source
>>package for now.
>>
>>Assuming the proposal is successful and the packaging is accepted, a new
>>version of octave, linked to the fftw library, would be released.  The octave
>>setup.hint would be modified to require fftw.
>>
>>Comments welcomed.
> 
> 
> Since the package is in SuSE and Debian, just go ahead and prepare the
> package.   But I'm wondering why it's useful to drop the single precision
> calls.  Sounds like an unnecessary restriction to me.

I also suggest to go just with the default configuration:
./configure [...standard flags...]  \
         --enable-threads \
         --enable-shared \
         --disable-static

Gerrit
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